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Washington Trip Report - part 23 Port Gamble
November 15th was a day I didn't have any specific plans for, other than that I wanted to go to a park of some sort and look for birds if the weather wasn't too bad. The weather started out too bad, with pouring rain, but it improved and I decided to hope that it would continue improving. After thinking over the various options on my list of places to potentially go, I decided on Point-No-Point, which is a county park at the northeastern corner of the Kitsap Peninsula.
On the way there I took a slightly wrong turn and ended up in Port Gamble, which was just fine with me. It is a rather touristy old mill town. There were a lot of birds on the water there and interesting stuff to photograph. I went into the store there and got a really good coconut steamer from the coffee shop inside. There's a museum there but it isn't open in November so I didn't get to find out what's in it.
There were a number of historic buildings. This one is the post office.
This is the view of Hood Canal. (It is not really a canal. It is the long, relatively thin piece of Puget Sound that separates the Kitsap Peninsula from the Olympic Peninsula.
A Herring Gull
There were a lot of birds on the water and I didn't have my spotting scope with me because carrying it with me on planes is a pain and this wasn't meant to be a birding trip. It was annoying to not be able to get decent views of the birds though. I ended up taking photos that I could enlarge later to try to identify what I saw. The birds in this photo are Red-breasted Mergansers, Common Goldeneyes, and Horned Grebes, all birds that I see at home at least occasionally.
On the way there I took a slightly wrong turn and ended up in Port Gamble, which was just fine with me. It is a rather touristy old mill town. There were a lot of birds on the water there and interesting stuff to photograph. I went into the store there and got a really good coconut steamer from the coffee shop inside. There's a museum there but it isn't open in November so I didn't get to find out what's in it.
There were a number of historic buildings. This one is the post office.
This is the view of Hood Canal. (It is not really a canal. It is the long, relatively thin piece of Puget Sound that separates the Kitsap Peninsula from the Olympic Peninsula.
A Herring Gull
There were a lot of birds on the water and I didn't have my spotting scope with me because carrying it with me on planes is a pain and this wasn't meant to be a birding trip. It was annoying to not be able to get decent views of the birds though. I ended up taking photos that I could enlarge later to try to identify what I saw. The birds in this photo are Red-breasted Mergansers, Common Goldeneyes, and Horned Grebes, all birds that I see at home at least occasionally.